yup, you don't feel them biting. i pulled hundreds of ticks off of me and my dogs growing up. pull slowly but firmly from the base of the head, with fingernails

yup, you don't feel them biting. i pulled hundreds of ticks off of me and my dogs growing up. pull slowly but firmly from the base of the head, with fingernails if tweezers aren't handy. squeeze the body between (the backs of) your fingernails until they snap to finish them off (same for fleas). i don't really remember having issues with the mouth parts staying behind and irritating the skin, even though that was warned about too back then.